What solar terms eat mutton?

Beginning of winter eats mutton in solar terms.

Mutton after autumn and winter tastes particularly delicious. In China, in border areas other than the Great Wall, such as Inner Mongolia and Tibet, mutton is usually eaten from late autumn to the beginning of spring. For example, in Changxing, Zhejiang Province, shops have set up stalls to slaughter sheep for sale in August of the lunar calendar. There is a folk saying that "on the first day of the first month, sheep scissors are cut" and it will not be sold until after New Year's Eve. There are many sheep in Taihu Lake basin. In winter, mutton is also in season.

Beginning of winter is the nineteenth of the twenty-four solar terms. Bucket handle points to the northwest, and the longitude of the sun reaches 225. Every year, the solar calendar165438+1October 7-8. Beginning of winter is a seasonal solar term, which means that it has entered winter since then. Stand still, build the beginning; In winter, everything will be collected in the end. Beginning of winter means that anger begins to close and everything enters a state of recuperation. Its climate has gradually changed from dry autumn to rainy and cold winter.